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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} My Late Wives by Carter Dickson My Late Wives Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} My Late Wives by Carter Dickson My Late Wives. British stage star Bruce Ransom loved his new role: that of multiple wife-murderer Roger Bewlay. But a nasty homicide in Aldebridge seemed to indicate that either Bewlay had reappeared or Ransom's rehearsals had gotten out of hand. Sir Henry Merrivale was determined to hunt down the real killer. Read More. British stage star Bruce Ransom loved his new role: that of multiple wife-murderer Roger Bewlay. But a nasty homicide in Aldebridge seemed to indicate that either Bewlay had reappeared or Ransom's rehearsals had gotten out of hand. Sir Henry Merrivale was determined to hunt down the real killer. Read Less. All Copies ( 10 ) Softcover ( 2 ) Hardcover ( 5 ) Book Details Seller Sort. Frederick, MD, USA. Edition: Good Details: Language: English Alibris ID: 16474269805 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Good condition. (Mystery, Suspense, Fiction) ► Contact This Seller. 1967, Berkley X1467. Edition: 1967, Berkley X1467 Paperback, Fair Details: Publisher: Berkley X1467 Published: 01/1967 Language: English Alibris ID: 16430981316 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Fair. Noticeably used book. Text is legible but may be soiled and have binding defects. Heavy wear to covers and pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included. ► Contact This Seller. 1949, Pocket Book. Edition: 1949, Pocket Book Very Good Details: Publisher: Pocket Book Published: 1949 Language: English Alibris ID: 16456237140 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66 Trackable Expedited: €7,33 Two Day Air: €13,75. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: First Printing. Pocket Book 633. Near Fine condition. ► Contact This Seller. Frederick, MD, USA. Edition: Paperback, Fair Details: Language: English Alibris ID: 16139780736 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Acceptable. Fair book. Pan Book 263. Mass Market Paperback edition. Browned sheets. Inquire if you need further information. ► Contact This Seller. 1946, William Morrow: NY. Edition: 1946, William Morrow: NY Hardcover, Good Details: Publisher: William Morrow: NY Published: 1946 Language: English Alibris ID: 14608300162 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: 7.5 x 5, hardcover, 282 pp, vg in edge worn, price clipped jacket with small chips and large tears, fair jacket. Internally clean and sound. FIRST ED. ► Contact This Seller. Frederick, MD, USA. Edition: Good Details: Language: English Alibris ID: 16385267422 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Good. Signed Copy Collectible-Good. Barbara G. Mertz's signature on front endpage. Sir Henry Merrivale series. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate inside front cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (Mystery, Murder, Detective Fiction, Sir Henry Merrivale) ► Contact This Seller. 1946, William Morrow and Company. Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Edition: 1946, William Morrow and Company Hardcover, Good Details: Edition: 1st edition Publisher: William Morrow and Company Published: 1946 Language: English Alibris ID: 16216512686 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66 Trackable Expedited: €7,33. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: 8. Good with chips, light creases, and tiny losses in edges. Former bookseller's sticker on back flap. In transparent dust jacket protector. ► Contact This Seller. Llandybie, Ammanford, CARMARTHENSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM. Edition: 1948, Heinemann Hardcover, Fair Details: Publisher: Heinemann Published: 1948 Language: English Alibris ID: 15709862057 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Fair. ► Contact This Seller. Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM. Edition: 1947, Heinemann Hardcover, Good Details: Edition: 1st edition Publisher: Heinemann Published: 1947 Language: English Alibris ID: 10345511535 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Used-Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket repaired inside with orange. DJ not price-clipped, but worn at edges, with short tear in front fold, some chips, tiny hole in spine affecting 'Carter' in title, browned spine; binding tight; dust jacket protected in removable clear film. ► Contact This Seller. 1946, William Morrow. Edition: 1946, William Morrow Hardcover, Good Details: Edition: First Edition Publisher: William Morrow Published: 1946 Language: English Alibris ID: 15389288565 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,66. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Philly Reader. Roger Bewlay appeared to be a serial killer. He had married Angela Phipps, and a short time later, she disappeared. Two years later, he married Elizabeth Mosnar who later disappeared. Then he took up residence with Andree Cooper who had little money so they did not marry. She also disappeared. Bewley took different name for each of the women he was attached to so he was know as Roger Bewlay, Roger Bowdoin, and Richard Barclay. Chief Inspector Masters was in charge of the investigation but he never found Bewlay and he never found the women either. The police could not investigate any farther if there were no bodies. Then Mister R. Benedict and his wife moved to Torquay. One month later, R. Benedict left Torquay, and Mrs. Benedict disappeared. This time there was a witness who saw R. Benedict and his wife. Miss Lyons was a typist who had done some letters for Benedict, and he had paid her with a bad 10 shilling note. When she returned in the evening to get a good one, she saw the dead body of Mrs. Benedict on the couch through the window. Miss Lyons turned away and left. She told all this to Chief Inspector Masters who thought they would immediately find Roger Bewlay, but after ten years, the police still had not done so. Now after 10 years, a new approach is taken to this story. Dennis Foster, a young lawyer, goes to see a play and to see his friend, the director, Beryl West. This play was due to close shortly, and the star of the play, the handsome actor Bruce Ransom, was planning to take a month off for rest and relaxation. However, Ransom had received a copy of a new play which seems to present a fictional version of the Roger Bewlay murders. Ransom would not reveal the name of the author. Beryl says that the ending is just not believable, and she does not want to present it. Ransom comes up with the idea of using his month off to go to a small village, pretend to be Roger Bewlay, and make love to a young woman. Beryl and Dennis tell this idea to Chief Inspector Masters and Sir Henry Merrivale. At first, Masters is opposed, but Sir Henry Merrivale says he will not help with the Bewley case unless Masters agrees to Ransom's imposture. So now it really does get complicated. There are those who believe that Bruce Ransom is carrying out his plan to pretend to be Roger Bewlay, and there are those who believe that Bruce Ransom really is Roger Bewlay and has written the play himself. A dead body shows up and is carefully hidden in a place where people will look at it and not see it. Then there will be a rather dramatic ending which will really tell you who the real Roger Bewlay is. This book was written in 1946 which makes it one of the later John Dickson Carr books. #761: The Skeleton in the Clock (1948) by Carter Dickson. On the afternoon of November 4th 1927, Sir George Fleet stood unaccompanied on the flat roof of Fleet House and was, as several independent witnesses assert, pushed to his death by invisible hands. Twenty years later, Scotland Yard receive three anonymous postcards marked “Re: Sir George Fleet” exhorting them to “examine the skeleton in the clock” and asking “what was the pink flash on the roof?” because “evidence of murder is still there”. Enter Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters, dragging the Old Man, Sir Henry ‘H.M.’ Merrivale, in his wake…Merrivale himself having just bought a grandfather clock which has a skeleton suspended inside of it. A point was made, not unfairly, in the comments of a previous John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson review that I was guilty of coming these later works expecting them to be poor and then evincing surprise when they were, y’know, good . Having always tried to judge a book on its merits rather than it’s reputation — good grief, I may still not have read any Freeman Wills Crofts or R. Austin Freeman otherwise…can you imagine?! — I vowed to go in to The Skeleton in the Clock (1948) with preconceptions cast aside. And Carr’s forty-seventh published book in eighteen years, the 18th to feature H.M. as sleuth, is a frank delight. There’s a lightness and propulsion which was missing from preceding title
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